Acts 23:1-35
ST. PAUL SENT TO CÆESAREA 1. St. Paul often asserts his good conscience before God and man: see Acts 22:3; Acts 24:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
ST. PAUL SENT TO CÆESAREA 1. St. Paul often asserts his good conscience before God and man: see Acts 22:3; Acts 24:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANANIAS] is not the same as Annas (Acts 4:6). He was the son of Nebedæus, and held the high priesthood from 47-59 a.d. His rapacity and violence were notorious. To smite him] because, being a prisoner, he spoke without being asked: cp. John 18:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD SHALL SMITE THEE] St. Paul's angry retort has often been contrasted with our Lord's mild words on a similar occasion (John 18:23). But St. Paul's rebuke was well deserved. _Thou_ WHITED WALL] i.e. 'thou hypocrite.' The allusion is to the practice of limewashing dirty walls to conceal the filth:... [ Continue Reading ]
As the high priest, when present, presided over the Sanhedrin, it is somewhat strange that St. Paul should not have known who Ananias was. A possible explanation is that St. Paul was somewhat short-sighted. THOU SHALT NOT SPEAK EVIL] see Exodus 22:28. 6F. The Sadducees, who disbelieved a future li... [ Continue Reading ]
The men who plotted against St. Paul were probably Sicarii or Assassins (see on Acts 21:38), whom we know that the high priest Ananias did not scruple to employ to remove his enemies. 16. St. Paul's nephew was perhaps a rabbinical student at Jerusalem, as St. Paul himself had been. 26-30. Lysias p... [ Continue Reading ]
ST. PAUL IS SENT TO CÆSAREA.... [ Continue Reading ]
AN ARMY] RV 'the soldiers.'... [ Continue Reading ]
ANTIPATRIS] founded by Herod the Great, now Râs-el-'Ain.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GOVERNOR] i.e. Antonius Felix, procurator of Judæa, cirActs 52-58 a.d. His ferocious repression of the Zealots called into being a new and still more pernicious class of enthusiasts, the Sicarii, or Assassins: see on Acts 21:38; His folly and cruelty goaded the nation into disaffection and rebel... [ Continue Reading ]
OF CILICIA] Cilicia and Judaea were at this time minor provinces, attached to the superior province of Syria. Hence Felix could have sent Paul for trial to the governor of Syria, if he had wished.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEROD'S JUDGMENT HALL] the palace built by Herod the Great at Cæsarea, where the Roman procurator resided. It was also a fortress, and would contain a guard-room.... [ Continue Reading ]